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Large dish

Large dish

Chinese

Large circular dish with sides curving inward to a short footring; molded decoration in relief of flowers, leaves, and bees on the interior; pinkish buff earthenware coated with a white slip before the application of iron-brown and copper-green lead-fluxed glazes on selected areas, the exterior with a translucent pale green lead-fluxed glaze stopping short of the footring.

Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze

Liao dynasty, 907-1125

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